Comments on: gah-feeld?

gah-feeld?

onkelchrispy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:44:24 -0800

Garfield is dead...maybe. (Warning: Obnoxious music)

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:48:32 -0800

uh-huh. that was terrible. why didn't you just link to the strips themselves? besides, this was already a fairly notorious week of strips.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:50:45 -0800

i just noticed they added color to those strips, which is kind of odd. they weren't like that when i checked it a week ago.

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:55:43 -0800

Interesting... Many say the strip jumped the shark in 1989, I think Jim Davis died that week too. Er, at least his creativity...

By: subaruwrx

subaruwrx — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:58:40 -0800

Oh, and repost Somewhat...

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:20:20 -0800

Those are pretty bizarre. At first I thought it was a Wikipedia hoax, but it appears to be legit. here are the strips.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:25:21 -0800

yeah. yeah, i linked to them in the very first comment in this thread. just.. look right above, up there, and you'll see the link, lord pall.

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:29:19 -0800

hahah. Crap. I thought you were asking rhetorically and didn't see the fact that the strips themselves was an actual link. My excuse is that I just ate a bad cupcake.

By: thedaniel

thedaniel — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:40:04 -0800

AND OF COURSE GARFIELD YTMNDs ARE THE BEST OF THE WEB. /newbie_rage

By: weretable and the undead chairs

weretable and the undead chairs — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:52:07 -0800

What was the song/band in the background on that page? It sounded familar and will drive me nuts now.

By: photoslob

photoslob — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:55:35 -0800

The post about this over at BB says it's by the Twighlight Singers

By: onkelchrispy

onkelchrispy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:01:06 -0800

photoslob, your photos are fuggin incredible

By: weretable and the undead chairs

weretable and the undead chairs — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:04:58 -0800

Yeah, it is Bonnie Brae by the Twighlight Singers. Thx. Now I can go to sleep tonight. heh.

By: donkeymon

donkeymon — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:38:09 -0800

Yeah, but what's the story with Garfield? What the hell was going on that week? Those strips barely make sense. Maybe Jim Davis's real cat died or something.

By: ao4047

ao4047 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:49:13 -0800

Wow. NEDM.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:50:58 -0800

maybe jim davis got a razor blade in an apple and was filled with existential angst that week ... he doesn't do it any better than he does humor

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:59:22 -0800

The Twilight Singers aren't even remotely obnoxious.

By: hipnerd

hipnerd — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:01:26 -0800

For the best in Garfield-bashing, I submit Burn, Garfield, Burn. Lots of pictures.

By: onkelchrispy

onkelchrispy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:24:02 -0800

NEDM=Nuclear Event Detonation Monitoring

By: onkelchrispy

onkelchrispy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:27:38 -0800

NEDM

By: thatweirdguy2

thatweirdguy2 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:55:16 -0800

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:25:13 -0800

If Garfield's been in a fugue of denial, doomed to relive his memories of life as a spectre in the house where he once lived with Odie & Jon, it'd explain why that strip is monotonous and repetitive, but what's the excuse for every other strip on the comics page? In fact, come to think of it, the entire newspaper industry is a ghost of its former self that refuses to die. Maybe Davis was poking fun at the entire idea of a comics page. Same crap over and over. Comics are dead.

By: wumpus

wumpus — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:52:25 -0800

You guys notice he states "I haven't lived for years" on Oct. 26th, right? well, according to Wikipedia, a certain John D. McCollum killed himself only a few years earlier... Coincidence?... um... NO!!... totally not.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:59:22 -0800

Little known fact: McCollum was found dead in a room with both Ozzy albums and books of Garfield comic strips: a deadly combination. the real reason Garfield is dead is because Calvin stuck the fat cat's head under water for several minutes and then used a plunger to stuff the dead carcass down his mother's garbage disposal.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:40:43 -0800

Has anyone here seen Allegro non Troppo? It's done in the same fashion of Fantasia, but without Disney's icky sentimentality. There's one short featuring a cat living in an abandoned house, and when the music turns happy for a moment the cat halucinates his old family and is happy. Then the music turns sour again and the cat returns to the abandoned house. I think Jim Davis was trying to copy its dismal sadness for halloween, but rather failed at it.

By: Serial Killer Slumber Party

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:22:34 -0800

Excellent. I've been searching for something to torment and weigh down my soul. Garfield it is! I will be the most interesting individual at the poetry slam yet!

By: jfuller

jfuller — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:42:27 -0800

> but without Disney's icky sentimentality. There's one short featuring a cat living in an abandoned > house, and when the music turns happy for a moment the cat halucinates his old family and is > happy. Then the music turns sour again and the cat returns to the abandoned house. I've seen it. I frankly thought the ghost-cat-living-in-its-family's-former-house segment dripped with icky sentimentality, though of the tear-jerk variety rather than Disney's happy flowers and fuzzy bunnies. OMG Bunnies! What's wrong with teh fuzzy bunnies? OTOH I loved the other post-armageddon segment, set to Ravel, where the thing rises out of the discarded Coke bottle and breeds and starts the whole cycle over again. That one was marred only by the bludgeon editorializing at the end.

By: joeblough

joeblough — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:09:37 -0800

"shut up! presidents don't respond on mondays!" while i'd like to believe that jim davis was sending some kind of coded message about the remainder of the strip, i think probably it was just a ham-fisted attempt at philosophy or something. too bad, really.

By: O9scar

O9scar — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:24:22 -0800

I like this death of Garfield cut-up myself.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:11:00 -0800

Yeah, but what's the story with Garfield? What the hell was going on that week? Those strips barely make sense. Maybe Jim Davis's real cat died or something. At the time the strips in question were written strips like Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes were enjoying great success, in large part to the strength of the writing. Even among his own artists, Berke Breathed and Bill Watterson were considered heros of the genre. This particular series of strips left everyone at Davis' studio scratching their heads and wondering if he had cracked somehow. In the end, as joeblough suggests, you really have to write this off as a ham-fisted attempt at philosophy. Other, less disturbing, attempts are scattered here-and-there throughout the Garfield universe.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:33:50 -0800

I just can't read that last strip without hearing Rod Serling's voice.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:35:45 -0800

Mystery solved!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:53:25 -0800

Jim Davis has this all crabbed. He's supposed to stretch out the mystery and tell people the answer will be resolved in future strips, in order to keep people engaged in his product. No wonder everybody hates Garfield. Jim doesn't know how to manipulate the public into being obsessed and addicted to his work.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:54:03 -0800

...Yes that was sarcasm. In fact everything I post is sarcasm, even when it's not, just in case you didn't know.